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Date of
Age .
Death
Name
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
Jan. 3
Paul D. Roberts.
4
Jan. 3 Carrie M. Linscott Wright
79
10
12
Jan. 4 Everett Cousens .
1
4
5
Jan. 5 Frank Eastman Hammond
44
8
16
Jan. 6
George Ross Tripp
59
8
12
Jan. 7
Harriet Isabel Kendall
76
2
.
Jan. 8 Frank Eugene Flint.
58
9
27
Jan.
10 Eunice Tolan
66
. .
. .
Jan.
11
. .
. .
Jan. 11
Amos H. Dwinel.
80
6
12
Jan. 11
Mary Frances Fowle.
77
. .
8
Jan. 12
Catherine J. Murphy
31
2
30
Jan.
14
Ida Benton Martin Loring .
58
11
27
Jan. 14
Mary E. Flynn
45
. .
·
Jan. 15
John J. Holian.
30
2
3
Jan. 16
Antonio Tarabochia
38
. .
.
Jan. 18
George O. Gallerani
32
2
24
Jan. 18
.
. .
Jan.
19
Richard Smith .
35
Jan. 20
Abraham Fishman
35
. .
. .
Jan. 20 John Henderson
67
8
19
Jan. 21
George I. Dunn .
93
6
23
Jan.
21
Mary Hastings Teele .
84
9
8
Jan. 23
Mary F. Roy .
30
Jan. 23
Charlotte Ann Linnekin
40
7
14
Jan. 25
Anna Casey .
47
..
..
Jan. 27
William H. Hillas
57
.
. .
Jan. 29 Annie Caplis.
47
11
29
Feb. 1
Jennie Juanita Martin
47
9
18
Feb.
1 Frances A. Land
75
10
28
Feb. 2 John D. Sullivan
61
4
1
Feb.
3 Franklin Buckman.
59
1
22
Feb.
3 Charles Maitland Moody.
6
11
6
Feb.
5 Melita K. Davis .
56
9
22
Feb.
5 Belinda B. Breslin .
76
Feb.
5 William C. Hathaway
63
7
2
Feb.
6 William H. Maher
60
10
20
Feb.
6 Anna Sophia Hammarbeck.
4
4
1
Feb.
7 Annie Fletcher Harding
69
3
28
Feb. 7 John J. Fleming
52
1
11
Feb.
7 Catherine Herlihy .
65
.
Feb.
9 Manuel Ricardo Pavia
59
10
23
1
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. .
Jan. 11
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286
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Date of
Death
Name
Yrs.
Age Mos. x
Days
Feb. 10
Ellen C. Daly
34
11
26
Feb. 11 Joseph F. Lyons
40
. .
..
Feb. 13
Evelyn Byrne
1
3
10
Feb. 13
John Tobin .
63
11
Feb. 16
Herbert Francis Ingell
71
1
19
Feb. 16
Margaretha Eschboch.
81
9
30
Feb. 17
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Feb. 18
Edwin M. Shirley
42
7
17
Feb. 19
Merrick Cowles.
74
Feb. 19
Edgar Bertie Farmer
49
9
22
Feb. 2
Almira Davenport Locke.
88
10
26
Feb.' 21
Clara Hayward T. White
80
. .
. .
Feb. 23
Jacob Botkin .
26
. .
. .
Feb. 23
Ira G. Kenniston
74
1
15
Feb. 25
Isabel Hornblower
83
..
. .
Feb. 25
Mary Whitman
72
. .
. .
Feb. 26
Frances Lydia Hawkins
72
9
4
Feb. 26
John M. Looney .
8
. .
23
Feb. 27
Jeremiah C. Long
26
7
9
Mar.
1
Florence M. Warrer
24
. .
5
Mar. 2
Mary Ann Haskell.
75
11
20
Mar.
3
Rosenia Aurillia.
2
23
Mar. 4
Jane Veronica Fitzgerald
32
. .
. .
Mar. 5
Lydia Maria Tappan
91
5
9
Mar. 8 Julius Friedman .
61
.
..
Mar. 8
Jennie E. L. Mahoney.
55
6
19
Mar. 8
Douglas Oliver Spencer
3
25
Mar. 8 Jennie Gould .
59
7
15
Mar. 9 Frederick Lewellen Brown
60
7
27
Mar. 10
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. .
Mar. 12
Mary M. Murphy.
45
. .
. .
Mar. 14
Philipp Tucci.
.
3
3
Mar. 14
Charles Gersham Austin .
52
4
20
Mar. 16
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. .
Mar. 18
Isaac Shapiro
29
. .
. .
Mar. 19
Lillian Wolff
18
3
. .
Mar. 19
Emma J. Parent
65
11
24
Mar. 21
Samuel A. Fowle
85
9
Mar. 22
Joseph J. McCloskey
37
5
1
Mar. 23
Annie Jane Wood.
59
8
23
Mar. 23
Benjamin H. Croke
29
8
10
Mar. 24
Henry Welsford Morgan
10
6
16
Mar. 28
Mary A. Bouchie
72
..
Mar. 30
Francis Beagen
.
. .
10
.
. .
.
287
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
Age
Date of Death
Name
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
Mar. 30
Emma J. Chadwick.
70
8
1
Mar. 31
Clarence Henry Wilbur
46
5
5
Mar. 31
Marian Shaw Crosby
35
7
21
Mar. 31
Christopher Callister
77
6
April 1
. .
. .
. .
April 2
Susan E. Currie.
39
3
13
April 3
Anna Wanton :
6
17
April 5 Howard B. Salisbury
60
8
25
April 5 Sadie E. Kimball
42
7
12
April 6
John Quincy Adams Brackett
75
9
29
April
6
Florence Leavis Sargent
50
5
2
April 8
Jennie O. Parker
60
April 9
John Mclaughlin Cavanaugh
31
. .
. .
April 11
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. .
April 11
Edward Breslin
1
7
12
April 21
James M. Morrill.
81
. .
.
April 22
Sylvester Russell Crocker
65
7
29
April 24
Emma Allen Perham
49
10
27
April 26
Clifford L. Mahoney .
55
6
23
April 26
Raymond P. Corriveau.
1
4
12
April 27
Jennie Trebino.
34
6
19
April 29
Emma E. Browne.
41
.
. .
April 30
Ellen Frances Seaver
75
5
10
May
1
Thomas Butler
74
May
1
Allan Nickerson
2
6
May 2
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. .
. .
May
3
Harriet Elizabeth Webber
80
4
.
May
8
Mary A. Angus
66
1
14
May 9
Harry Baldwin Brackett.
59
11
26
May 9
Raymond Chester MacDonald.
8
17
May 13
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.
. .
May 13
Michael T. J. Harvey
35
7
5
May 14
Signe G. Anderson.
31
2
8
May 13
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·
. .
May 13
Gertrude Page
5
28
May 13
Emeline Lantz.
81
9
9
May 14
. .
.
. .
May 19
Agnes C. Sheehan
29
5
8
May 23
Benjamin Durgin
87
1
12
May 24
Anna Natalia Berg
37
1
19
May 26
Frederick A. Richards.
. .
47
. .
. .
. .
*
May 18
. .
·
May 24
.
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.
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May 13
288
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Date of
Death
Name
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
May 28 Katherine Wennerberg.
36
. .
. .
May 28 Sarah Spencer .
23
9
5
May 30
Richard W. A. Scott.
52
5
8
June
1 Martha Maria Proctor.
89
3
29
June
2 Eliza A. W. Cutter
79
8
27
June
3
Dorcas Reid
56
2
30
June 3
Cornelia Frances Parker
74
11
17
June 4 Sara McPherson
74
8
18
June 5 Sarah L. Cook .
42
10
1
June
7
Bernard M. Nolan .
31
June 7
Ellsworth Nelson Johnson
27
10
28
June
7 Francis Leslie Bradhurst.
28
1
16
June 10
Andrew King
90
. .
. .
June 12
June 12
Charles Davis Cobb.
51
3
2
June 13
Maud Elizabeth Armstrong .
37
9
26
June 15
Annie Margaret Ross
55
10
.
June 17
Ruth M. Mckeown.
. .
7
June 20
Margaret Alice Mariner
40
5
13
June 21
Annie V. Breslin .
22
7
6
June 23
Catherine Looney
50
1
27
June 23
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.
June 27
Elizabeth Noble.
85
14
July 3
Clara M. Cameron
42
6
. .
July 11
George Ivester
60
2
9
July 11 John Gallagher
88
July
13 Frank Wilbur Greene
33
1
18
July 14
Jeremiah Cunningham .
68
July
15
William Joseph Coombes.
48
1
18
July 16
Daring Crane Goodale
85
10
12
July
18
Allen Blackmar
83
6
12
July 22
Albert Herder .
48
.
. .
July 22
Frank Amory McLean
10
1
July 24
Clarence H. Campbell.
32
2
3
July 24
William Henry Exford
49
2
2
July 25
Elizabeth Crawford Brown.
80
5
S
July 27
Elizabeth Collins.
80
. .
. .
July
30
Wacelius Ferdinant Nelson
23
2
. .
July
31
. .
. .
Aug. 2 Eugene Greiger
5
.
Aug. 5 Maud Levenia Ellis.
53
5
30
Aug.
7 Edwin Raymond Powell.
12
7
17
June
5 Frank L. Craig, Jr.
.
. .
. .
5
June 19
Dorothy K. Mckeown
.
1
.
.
289
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
Age
Death
Name
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
Aug. 8 Daniel J. Chisholm .
49
11
3
Aug. 9 Augusta Shepley Frothingham
84
4
15
Aug. 14
Irma Martino
15
. .
. .
Aug. 15
Eleanor Augusta Negley
83
11
1
Aug. 16
Carrie Wentworth Storer
38
3
9
Aug. 19
Michele Mercatante.
. .
.
. .
Aug. 20
Craighton A. Logan.
63
1
8
Aug. 21
Lucinda Stearns Jones.
77
.
Aug. 22
Elizabeth M. Gould
84
4
26
Aug. 24
William B. Wood .
68
1
19
Aug. 28
Benjamin C. Haskell.
55
5
11
Aug. 31
Alena Anna Williams
41
4
9
Aug. 31
Lurena Farris.
91
10
6
Sept. 1
Catherine Siros
. .
7
24
Sept.
2
Rose Ellen Bower
35
. .
. .
Sept. 4
Julia Campbell
84
5
23
Sept.
6
Bernard Toye.
9
27
Sept.
6
Mary Eliza Manson
69
5
20
Sept.
7
Jessie Burgess
82
3
4
Sept. 8
Charles O'Donnell .
22
11
12
Sept. 10
Joseph Milano.
29
. .
. .
Sept. 11
Marino Luciano
24
11
6
Sept. 11
Annabelle Jenks
26
10
17
Sept. 12
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. .
Sept. 12
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. .
. .
Sept. 14
Helen R. Coombes
26
2
16
Sept. 14
Wallace F. Nickerson
40
·
. .
Sept. 16
Ellen C. Dupuis .
32
5
29
Sept. 17
James D. King
25
10
17
Sept. 17
Elsie M. Smith
21
4
19
Sept. 18
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. .
.
Sept. 18
John E. Gately
19
10
5
Sept. 19
Catherine LaPierre
30
. .
· ·
Sept. 20
Thomas J. Tobin .
27
. .
Sept. 21
Bridget O'Connor.
28
. .
. .
Sept. 21
John Arthur Larson
9
22
Sept. 21
Sophia C. Leyland.
72
11
9
Sept. 21
George E. McNamara .
30
. .
. .
Sept. 23
Mary A. McKenna
30
6
20
Sept. 23
Mary McKinnon.
.
1
3
. .
. .
.
. .
. .
5
Aug. 20
Karl Hubner
35
30
Aug. 14 Johanna Giuricich.
72
. .
12
Sept. 21
Madalena Guanci .
.
Date of
Sept. 2
290
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Age
Date of Death
Name
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
Sept. 23
Emily Shumway .
6
3
19
Sept. 24
Robert Leslie Bowman.
6
. .
Sept. 24
John A. Nelson .
38
11
8
Sept. 24
John W. Sheridan
28
1
13
Sept. 24
Joseph Femia .
25
.
Sept. 24
William J. O. Doane
40
1
26
Sept. 25
Michael Donovan.
28
.
. .
Sept. 25
Catherine Mclaughlin
24
5
. .
Sept. 26
Eleanor McKenna .
. .
11
8
Sept. 26
Stuart Cunningham Vinal
24
5
1
Sept. 26
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..
.
Sept. 26
Robert Bouser
. .
. .
3
Sept. 27
Katharine E. Lowe
20
11
28
Sept. 27
Harvey G. Lowe
21
1
24
Sept. 27
Elsie A. Hatch Davis.
38
9
. .
Sept. 27
John Sullivan.
59
. .
Sept. 28
Mary Elsner
64
. .
.
Sept. 28
Alfred Diamond .
32
. .
29
Sept. 28
Mary Elizabeth Dow
79
5
3
Sept. 28
Gaetano Cavicchi.
52
.
. .
Sept. 28
Frank MacDonald
46
6
24
Sept. 28
James E. Mulgrew .
32
3
4
Sept. 29
Lidie Randall Sheppard.
26
1
24
Sept. 30
Hildegard Maria W. Wennberg
27
2
26
Sept. 30
Mary V. O'Neil
20
7
23
Sept. 30
Eugene Fred LeGender
34
3
Oct. 1
James McGinty.
37
6
14
Oct.
1
Frank S. Breen .
42
6
6
Oct.
1
Frank E. Malone.
43
. .
Oct.
1
Charles A. West.
30
3
. .
Oct.
1 Cora E. Salt.
47
7
28
Oct.
2
Bertha E. Gifford
58
9
10
Oct.
2
Rose H. Rogers.
28
6
24
Oct.
2
Arthur A. Dickson
44
.
. .
Oct.
3
. .
.
. .
Oct.
3
Daniel Sommer Robinson, Jr.
4
9
8
Oct.
3
William Charles Daley.
18
3
28
Oct. 3 Edmund Joseph Purcell.
46
8
1
Oct. 4 Carolyn Augusta Brackett
80
9
4
Oct.
4 Ellen Keegan
53
4
·
7
Oct.
4 Charles Devanna.
5
11
19
Sept. 27
Grace McLelland .
33
. .
Sept. 29
..
Oct.
2
Mary J. Carroll
76
7
2
291
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
Date of
Age
Death
Name
Yrs.
Mos.
Days
Oct. 5
Charles H. Trundy
65
5
29
Oct.
5 John Eecles Dunlop, Jr.
6
1
19
Oct. 6 Catherine Ryam.
25
2
18
Oct.
6
Oct.
6
Joseph Liotta.
2
4
5
Oct.
7
John J. McCarthy
7
7
23
Oct. 7
Mary E. Laery .
36
.
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Oct. 8 Ernest A. Clark.
40
. .
.
Oct.
9
Margaret Fogg
22
. .
13
Oct. 9 Lucille Rand Champlin
2
4
25
Oct. 9 John Francis Smith
38
4
.
Oct. 9 Arthur S. Perkins
51
11
13
Oct. 10 George Couper
51
6
Oct. 11
Richard B. Larkin
24
8
16
Oct. 11
Susan Caroline Crosby
41
4
15
Oct. 12
Alice Marie Sampson .
62
.5
24
Oct.
13
Julia Alfrieda Ekberg.
35
9
19
Oct.
13
Nora Mary Connors
27
11
24
Oct.
13 Frances F. Amazeen .
10
18
Oct.
13
Rose Alosso .
1
8
14
Oct.
14
Emiligo Alosso .
. .
6
18
Oct. 14
Mary M. Burns.
40
8
25
Oct. 14 Charles F. Donahue
33
. .
. .
Oct.
16
Thomas H. Lynch .
67
.
. .
Oct. 16
Mary B. Chambers
75
6
27
Oct. 17
Annie Wolff
49
. .
. .
Oct.
17
Eva S. Goldman.
24
Oct.
18
Helen L. Colgan
31
11
8
Oct. 18
Winifred Corcoran . .
36
. .
15
Oct. 21 Austie M. Boles
42
4
26
Oct. 21
Frederick Swan Smith
58
6
19
Oct. 22
William E. Salter .
57
6
11
Oct. 24
Margaret T. Donovan .
14
6
2
Oct. 25
Millie May Mills .
26
4
7
Oct. 27
Joseph Darling.
38
2
17
Oct. 28 Edward C. Lynch.
1
8
11
Oct. 29 Mary Macri.
. .
2
1
Oct. 29
Herman H. Zecher
52
8
15
Oct. 31
Carl Oleander
.
. .
4
25
·
24
Oct. 24
Annie Elizabeth Burton
64
. .
24
Oct. 15 Annie Liveroni. .
4
. .
1
. .
Oct. 20
Louise Marion Monto
15
7
21
Oct. 14 Guiseppe Raia
39
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Oct. 8 Erving S. Frankelton
32
292
ARLINGTON TOWN REPORT
Date of Death
Name
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
Nov. 1
John William White
65
6
23
Nov. 1 Oscar Woodruff .
55
/
1
19
Nov. 2 Chester Coffin Allen
21
. .
17
Nov. 2 Minnie Wackwitz .
39
1
17
Nov.
3
Susan Louise Stodder
93
3
14
Nov. 4
Catherine Margaret Rooney
54
6
18
Nov. 5
Nellie Elizabeth Ewart.
48
8
24
Nov. 12
Arthur Simpson Hatch
59
9
26
Nov. 13
Cora M. Manning.
36
3
28
Nov. 15
Rebecca Bowman.
7
5
4
Nov. 15
David Burke
65
. .
.
. .
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Nov. 17
Joseph Ryan .
. .
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Nov. 20
Carrie S. Gardner
43
11
22
Nov. 20
Margaret P. Waterman
90
5
8
Nov. 23
Lillias Gordon.
55
2
18
Nov. 24
Rachel Norton Wood
30
7
12
Nov. 25
John J. Dunn .
5
22
Nov. 26,
Anna Chisholm Meredith.
29
13
Nov. 27
Margaret Cox.
40
..
. .
Nov. 28
Waterman Allen Taft.
69
. .
17
Nov. 28
Marshal Sumner Holbrook.
42
9
28
Dec. 5
Mildred E. Blagden
30
.
Dec.
5
Annie C. Mead .
37
10
25
Dec.
2
John Tobin Brown
6
28
Dec.
4
Frederick W. Dickson
49
8
22
Dec.
8
·
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·
Dec.
9
Ezra Robinson
68
5
23
Dec. 11
.
. .
Dec. 12
Ada C. Rumpp
33
4
11
Dec. 13
Marion Elsie Simmons
27
5
27
Dec. 13
Edward J. Murphy
56
8
8
Dec. 14
Rosemary Reagan.
4
3
11
Dec. 15
Mehetable A. Leighteizer
83
3
21
Dec. 15
Annie F. Barry .
39
4
13
Dec. 15
George E. Maher
. .
. .
Dec. 16
Henry Grant Tuttle
37
Dec. 16
Walter J. Gilbert.
33
3
28
Dec. 18
Alvin E. Russell.
6
Dec. 18
Norman Scholz
.
. .
4
28
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.
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.
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.
Nov. 16
. .
. .
11
Nov. 16
2
. .
. .
. .
. .
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. .
·
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. .
27
Dec. 14
12
Nov. 23
Nov. 7
293
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK
Date of
Death
Name
Yrs.
Age Mos.
Days
Dec. 18
Marie Blanch Kehew
30
1
Dec. 19
John F. Henderson
24
3
19
Dec. 19
Willard G. White.
65
9
7
Dec. 21 Guiseppe Cammarata
1
3
16
Dec. 21
Emma Crafts.
66
19
Dec. 2
Joseph Reagan .
1
9
11
Dec. 21
Julia A. Axtman. .
57
6
28
Dec. 21
Muriel Anna Johnson
21
6
26
Dec. 22
Andrew J. Reardon .
63
Dec. 22
Lee Smith.
27
11
17
Dec. 22
Mary E. Dennis
36
.
Dec. 25
Arthur J. Warnock .
. .
4
Dec. 26
Isabelle Campbell.
89
4
13
Dec. 2
William Henry Burhoe
43
8
3
Dec. 26
Regina B. Emery .
31
2
17
Dec. 27
James D. Scannell
20
3
20
Dec. 27
Esther Goodman
12
. .
. .
Dec. 27
Mally Goodman
14
. .
. .
Dec. 27
Rosa Napolitano
1
1
1
Dec. 28
Maria Malcomb
59
9
16
Dec. 29
Samuel Warnock
34
11
7
Dec. 30
Peter Vasilakos.
23
Dec. 31
Emily Blackwood Greenlaw
69
11
18
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REPORT OF THE JOINT BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
The fifteenth annual report of the Joint Board of Selectmen and Board of Public Works is herewith submitted.
At the Annual March Election, Mr. Samuel E. Kimball was elected a member of the Board of Public Works and as such became a member of the Joint Board.
The Board was organized on March 11, 1918, with Willis P. Howard, Chairman of the Board of Selectmen, Chairman, and Thomas J. Robinson, Clerk.
The following appointments were made for the year ending April 1, 1919:
Town Counsel, Philip A. Hendrick.
Superintendent of Public Works and Town Engineer, George E. Ahern.
Superintendent of Wires, Reuben W. LeBaron.
The regular meeting nights of the Board are alternate Tues- days, but when the business of the Board requires meetings are held on other evenings.
For the benefit of new citizens of the Town, and others not familiar with the duties of the Board, it may be well to publish portions of the Act creating the Board.
The authority of the Board is contained in Section 5 of Chapter 3 of the Acts of 1904, creating the Joint Board, and is as follows:
"Section 5. Upon the election of said Board of Public Works all the powers, rights and duties and liabilities of the Selectmen in said Town, now existing, or hereafter created by law, relating to highways, Town ways, the laying out and dis- continuance of ways, bridges, sidewalks, guide posts, monu- ments at the terminal and angles of roads, public squares, playgrounds, shade trees, sewers, drains, street watering, street lighting, the assessment of damages and betterments, water pipes, gas pipes, conduits, poles, wires, street railways, the granting of locations, rights or licenses for structures upon,
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under or over highways, or other ways, shall be exercised, en- joyed, performed and incurred by a Board consisting of the Selectmen and the Board of Public Works, created by this act, sitting jointly as the Board of Survey."
The foregoing Act was accepted by the Town, February 8, 1904, and has been in operation since that time.
NEW STREETS
The Town having accepted the provisions of Chapter 249 of the Acts of 1897, known as the Board of Survey Act, the Board has established the following rules and regulations governing petitions for the laying out and the acceptance of new streets. The Board found this action necessary in order to avoid misunderstandings, and to enable petitioners to know approximately what the ultimate cost of the street would be, and the conditions under which the Board could recommend the acceptance of these streets to the Town. The rules, as adopted by the Board, are:
1. Approval of Plans. No plan will be approved which does not comply with the Board of Survey Act.
2. Petition for Estimate of Cost of Construction. After the approval of plans by the Board the interested parties may on application receive from the Clerk of the Board a blank form of petition requesting the Board to furnish an estimate of the cost of construction of the proposed street. This petition should bear the names of all owners of land abutting on the street together with the signatures of the parties petitioning.
On receipt of this, petition the Board will designate the type of construction and direct the Town Engineer to make an estimate of the cost of this construction.
3. Petition for the Laying Out of Streets. A blank form of petition for layout, stating the length, width, type of con- struction and estimated cost, will then be sent to the petitioner. This petition should also show names of all owners of land abutting and their addresses, together with the signatures of as many as possible of the parties desiring the layout. On receipt of this petition the Board will set a date for a hearing, and all interested parties will be notified.
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4. Action by the Board at First Hearing. After this first hearing if, in the opinion of the Board, common convenience and necessity require that the street in question be laid out as a public highway, they so vote and further vote that it is the intention of the Board to so lay out. A hearing is then set on the intention of the Board, and all interested parties are notified by warrant served by a Constable of the date of said hearing.
5. Final Hearing on Intention of the Board to Lay Out. If after the second hearing the Board is still of the opinion that public convenience and necessity require that said street should be laid out as a public way, a vote is passed laying the street out in accordance with the plans approved by the Board and a record is made of the description of the street by meters and bounds.
6. Acceptance by the Town. After the vote by the Board to lay out it is then within the authority of the Board of Selectmen on petition to insert an article in the Town Warrant for the acceptance of the street. No street can be brought before the Town for acceptance until the foregoing rules have been complied with. The Board would remind all persons intending to petition for the laying out and acceptance of streets that appropriations for this purpose are only made at the March meeting of each year. The petitions should, therefore, be filed during the early fall months, in order to allow time for hearings before the drawing of the Warrant for the March meeting.
In addition to the foregoing rules the Board has established a rule by which persons desiring the laying out, construction and acceptance of new streets will be informed before final action by the Board of the estimated cost of the construction and the approximate assessment to be levied on the abutting owners. This rule has worked very satisfactorily, enabling the petitioners to know what the street will cost them in- dividually, and relieving the Board, when betterments are assessed, of many misunderstandings as to the portion of the cost which is to be borne by the abutting owners.
NEW STREETS
While the Board has received petitions for the laying out and acceptance of new streets during the year none have been
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recommended to the Town for acceptance. The principal reason, in fact the only reason, for this action was the ab- normal cost of labor and materials, making the cost for the con- struction of these streets, after acceptance, beyond the amount the abutting owners felt they could afford to pay.
The practical working of the rules of the Board was very clearly shown in the results of these petitions. Without ex- ception the petitioners, on being informed of the approximate cost of the street, decided to wait until conditions were more favorable.
While there are many streets in the Town that, in the opinion of the Board, should be laid out and accepted, the same reasons have prevented the Board from recommending such action by the Town. In the near future, however, these streets must be considered if the future development of the Town is to advance along the lines existing previous to the conditions brought about by the war.
No street betterments will be levied the coming year, as no streets were built during the past year, the only street ac- cepted by the Town being built by the abutting owners, and accepted by the Town without assessing betterments.
PERMANENT SIDEWALKS
During the year 1918, the Board has adhered to the rule established the previous year in regard to granting petitions for permanent sidewalks. This rule is that a party desiring a permanent sidewalk makes application to the Board, an esti- mate is then made and sent to the petitioner of the cost of such sidewalk and a request for a deposit of one-half the amount of the estimate. On receipt of this amount the work is done by the Town, the remaining half of the cost being charged to the appropriation made for permanent sidewalks. This rule has worked to the advantage of both the Town and the petitioner - to the Town in that it is assured of double the amount of side- walks of this nature called for by the appropriation and the petitioner in that he is assured of the work being promptly and properly done.
There are a number of sidewalks in the Town, particularly
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along our main thoroughfares, that should be laid the coming year and the Board would strongly advise laying a sidewalk of a permanent character on Massachusetts Avenue from the present end of the permanent sidewalk at Marathon Street to the Cambridge line. This would accommodate a great number of our people and would add greatly to the appearance of the Avenue. A special appropriation will be asked for this work, the installation to be done under the provisions of the Sidewalk Act, allowing three to five years for the abutters o make payment.
STREET LIGHTING
The appropriation for street lighting was $14,000 for 1918. Of this amount $13,067 was expended. Owing to the coal situation the lights were used on three different schedules during the year: 1st, the all-night schedule, which, at the request of the Fuel Committee, was abandoned; 2d, the moonlight schedule, which did not prove satisfactory; and lastly, back to the old one o'clock schedule. This schedule has continued up to the present time.
The value of the existing contract with the Edison Company was demonstrated during the year when an effort was made to include the coal clause in the cost of street lighting. This, by the terms of the contract, could not be done, and the Town, therefore, saved the amount that would have otherwise been charged were the contract not in existence.
It is estimated that there will be twelve new lights installed the coming year. Two estimates have been submitted to the Finance Committee for the coming year,- one based on the one o'clock schedule, with the lights turned on in the morning one hour before sunrise, between September 15 and April 15. This one hour in the morning would require an additional cost of about thirty-five dollars per month, but would be of great benefit to the citizens having occasion to go to their work in the early morning hours. For this schedule and service an appro- priation of $13,750 will be required. The other estimate was based on the all-night lighting schedule, and will require an appropriation of $15,750. In view of the all-night schedule existing in surrounding places the Board would recommend the
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latter appropriation, and the placing of the street lighting system on the all-night schedule.
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW TERRITORY
In the development of the remaining area in Arlington for building purposes, the Board has adhered to the policy estab- lished some years ago of carefully considering all plans sub- mitted for proposed layouts of this remaining territory. The problems encountered are many, but the Board has endeavored to meet these problems in a spirit of encouragement for a proper and beneficial development for the Town. It is not the policy of the Board to hinder, but on the contrary to encour- age development where such development approaches the standard set by the Board. There are numerous tracts of land in our Town at the present time that can, by the character of the development, either mar or make the future of the Town. The future of the Town as determined by the uses of these areas is a serious problem and one which should attract the at- tention of all our citizens. Our Town is not a manufacturing town,- it is not an industrial center. It is essentially a resi- dential town, and as such must be considered from the view- point of the home seeker,- the man who desires to make his home among us - to be a part of us and to contribute, in his taxes, his share toward the cost of maintaining our various activities at the same standard of efficiency that has character- ized the Town in previous years. In order to do this it is essen- tial that the citizens, particularly those more munificently en- dowed with this world's goods, interest themselves in these problems. These citizens can, if they will, acquire these areas - have them laid out in accordance with the previous mentioned established restrictions and setbacks, and, in short, so develop the property that the future of the Town is assured, and the public-spirited citizens doing the work are reimbursed by the enhanced value of the property. This method has been tried with advantageous results in other places and the Board would recommend to our citizens a very serious consideration of the plan as applied to Arlington.
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